Dr Lauren Gavaghan's blistering speech on James O'Brien's show has gone viral with over 750,000 people watching it.

She insists that the Junior Doctors dispute is not just about being forced to work weekends, but is vital for everyone in the UK.

She said: "This is not about just Junior Doctors. In my opinion, this is about a much wider political picture. We have to take into account the socio-political climate here.

"The NHS is 2012 with the Health and Social Care Act was actually devolved. The government was devolved of responsibility for it. The public don't know that at all.

"What the government are trying to do with this whole bringing care to weekends is not to increase emergency care, because we do that of course already.

"What they are trying to do is introduce elective non-urgent clinics into weekends. What that means is that when the NHS is sold off into private hands, which is no secret - the whole of Wiltshire Childrens Services has just been sold off to Virgin, the whole of Devon has just been sold off to Virgin, Sittingbourne in Kent just recently has been sold off.

"Let's face the facts. When the NHS is being sold off, private companies do not want our complex, long-term physical or mental health patients.

"What they want is lovely little elective, non-urgent clinics which are now in the weekends and they can buy off.

"That's what this is all about. I think to not take the bigger picture into account would be a mistake in my opinion."

Tory activists prevent doctors from attending event with Jeremy Hunt
Doctors who had paid £15 to meet health secretary in Fareham were told reception was cancelled, but it went ahead elsewhere

United Nations warns UK Government to 'stop tasering children'

The United Nations will condemn and publicly shame the Government in May for allowing police to use 50,000-volt stun guns on children, as well as stopping and searching toddlers.

The Government faces a six-hour grilling in Switzerland over the extent of its compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the UK signed in 1990 and ratified the following year...

Local councils, public bodies and even some university student unions are to be banned by law from boycotting “unethical” companies, as part of a controversial crackdown being announced by the Government.

Under the plan all publicly funded institutions will lose the freedom to refuse to buy goods and services from companies involved in the arms trade, fossil fuels, tobacco products or Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Calilasseia wrote:Basically, he lied about the event being cancelled, but instead moved it to another venue, whilst putting in place measures to ensure that only fellow occupants of his insulated ideological bubble would be allowed to attend.

Sendraks wrote:
He's also called for an inquiry in Junior Doctors morale.

The number of doctors applying to work abroad surged by 1,000 per cent on the day Jeremy Hunt imposed new contract

The Health Secretary has been accused of acting as a recruiting agent for Australian hospitals

Hospital trusts threatened with cuts if they refuse to impose new contracts

http://gu.com/p/4gzb7

The government has told hospital foundation trusts that they could lose funding for training programmes if they refuse to impose the new contract for junior doctors.

The threat comes in a letter from Health Education England, the Department of Health body responsible for education and training, to chief executives of NHS trusts in England. It states that decisions on awarding funding for training posts will hinge in part on whether a trust decided to rebel against Jeremy Hunt over the new national contract.

However, none of the 152 foundation trust hospitals in England, which are semi-independent, are legally obliged to force junior doctors to accept the junior contract, the Department of Health admitted last week.

The government had feared trusts could be tempted to offer better terms as a means to recruit enough junior doctors to start as trainees in early August...

THWOTH wrote:

Hospital trusts threatened with cuts if they refuse to impose new contracts

Party of the free-market my ninny's chuff.

Aca wrote:

The number of doctors applying to work abroad surged by 1,000 per cent on the day Jeremy Hunt imposed new contract

The Health Secretary has been accused of acting as a recruiting agent for Australian hospitals

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 78776.html

Polly Toynbee wrote:

David Cameron deserves to come out of the EU referendum with no credit

Since becoming Conservative leader in 2005, Cameron has taken every opportunity to undermine Europe. He ought to be ashamed of his actions

Remember this today: whatever happens in these last-ditch EU negotiations, David Cameron has frivolously and selfishly taken his country to the very brink for nothing more than marginal political self-interest. He has gambled everything he thinks is in the national interest in exchange for worse than nothing. What he has done is unforgivable, shameful and shameless.

He may pull it off: an agreement tomorrow followed by a “remain” vote in a June referendum. Victory! His historic legacy secured! That will be like giving a medal to a ski instructor for leading his group off-piste down a closed black run and pulling them out alive from the ensuing avalanche. I’m no skier, but I’d expect him to be banned from the slopes, his licence removed.
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The new DWP benefits helpline is going to cost claimants up to 45p a minute

The chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee said the move was 'disturbing'

The phone line to claim Iain Duncan Smith’s new benefits system will cost callers trying to get assistance as much as 45p a minute, it has been confirmed.

Aca wrote:

The new DWP benefits helpline is going to cost claimants up to 45p a minute

The chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee said the move was 'disturbing'

The phone line to claim Iain Duncan Smith’s new benefits system will cost callers trying to get assistance as much as 45p a minute, it has been confirmed.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 81441.html

THWOTH wrote:Party of the free-market my ninny's chuff.